Abstract: The present invention provides an image capturing apparatus capable of easily finding an unsatisfactory point peculiar to a group picture at the time of taking a group picture and capable of taking a group picture with which all of subjects to be photographed are satisfied.

Abstract: A small-sized photographing apparatus in which a single display device performs both of a viewfinder and monitor display. The apparatus includes a body having a viewfinder window; the display device, the display surface of which can be observed from outside of the body; a pair of reflection mirrors inside the body; and a member for moving one of the reflection mirrors between a reflection position at which a beam of light from the display surface of the display device is reflected so that the beam is guided towards the viewfinder window, and a non-reflection position which is different from the reflection position.

Abstract: A digital camera has an operation portion including at least one main operation member and provided on the back surface of a camera body, and a slide portion including a main display device and provided on the back surface of the camera body. The slide portion is sidable between a housed position that covers the operation portion and an image capturing position that exposes the operation portion on the camera body.

Abstract: A camera has a lens barrier which can move between a closed position where a taking lens is covered and an opened position where the taking lens is exposed, and the on/off state of a power source is switched interlockingly with the open/close state of the lens barrier. A housing for housing the camera has a barrier driving lever for driving the lens barrier. At the time of attaching the housing, the tip of the barrier driving lever is retained by a finger retaining part of the camera to move the lens barrier to the opened position. As a result, attachment of the housing in a power-off state made by the lens barrier can be prevented.

Abstract: A camera body to which one of a plurality of interchangeable lenses is selectively attached is provided with: a shake detector 31; a shake compensation mechanism 32; and a controller 30 that compensates for the camera shake by driving the shake compensation mechanism based on the output from the shake detector. The controller 30 has a detector and a selector. The detector communicates with the attached interchangeable lens 20 and determines whether the interchangeable lens 20 itself has a shake compensation mechanism or not. The selector selects, when the detector determines that the interchangeable lens 20 has a shake compensation mechanism, both or one of the shake compensation mechanism of the camera body 10 and the shake compensation mechanism of the interchangeable lens 20 according to a predetermined condition as a compensation mechanism to be used for camera shake compensation.

Abstract: A camera having a box-form cover member slidable on a camera body between a closed position and an opened position. The camera further has a heat releasing member that releases heat generated within the camera body, into a space formed between the camera body and the cover member.

Abstract: A small-sized photographing apparatus in which a single display device performs both of a viewfinder and monitor display. The apparatus includes a body having a viewfinder window; the display device, the display surface of which can be observed from outside of the body; a pair of reflection mirrors inside the body; and a member for moving one of the reflection mirrors between a reflection position at which a beam of light from the display surface of the display device is reflected so that the beam is guided towards the viewfinder window, and a non-reflection position which is different from the reflection position.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus suitable for fixing an optical unit thereto, and a method for controlling a device in the unit from the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a unit fixing portion for fixing the unit thereto; a driver which runs the device in the unit; a controller which controls the driver and includes a primary controller; and a detector which finds running properties of the driver. The primary controller makes the driver work before an aimed running so as to run the device in the unit up to a set amount in a set timing, and makes the detector find running properties of the driver at the same time. During the aimed running, the controller makes the driver work, referencing to running properties found by the detector.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus suitable for fixing an optical unit thereto, and a method for controlling a device in the unit from the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a unit fixing portion for fixing the unit thereto; a driver which runs the device in the unit; a controller which controls the driver and includes a primary controller; and a detector which finds running properties of the driver. The primary controller makes the driver work before an aimed running so as to run the device in the unit up to a set amount in a set timing, and makes the detector find running properties of the driver at the same time. During the aimed running, the controller makes the driver work, referencing to running properties found by the detector.

Abstract: A camera has an AE sensor 10 and a display member 32 disposed in the vicinity of the focusing screen 4, and a field frame switcher having a light interrupting wing capable of changing a field frame. The light-interrupting wing crosses and interrupts a predetermined luminous flux path used for obtaining information necessary for photographing while the field frame is changed. The light-interrupting wing is disposed close to the predetermined luminous flux path to reduce the space needed to house the structure.

Abstract: A field-of-view frame switching device has a rectangular fixed field-of-view frame and a plurality of light-shielding members for covering portions of the rectangular fixed field-of-view frame so as to vary the size of the actual field-of-view frame. The light-shielding members are composed of a first pair of oppositely arranged light-shielding members and a second pair of oppositely arranged light-shielding members. The field-of-view frame switching device also has a coupling member for coupling the light-shielding members together in such relation that, when the first pair of light-shielding members are positioned closer to each other to narrow the actual field-of-view frame, the second pair of light-shielding members are positioned wide apart from each other and that, when the first pair of light-shielding members are positioned wide apart from each other, the second pair of light-shielding members are positioned closer to each other to narrow the actual field-of-view frame.

Abstract: An apparatus capable of using a film cartridge in a manner that a lead portion of a film contained in the cartridge is fed out therefrom by the film thrusting, wherein a controller judges that an initial loading is not executed normally when a perforation is not detected although a fed film amount on an initial loading reaches a first predetermined amount, and stops a detector from detecting a perforation until the fed film amount reaches a second predetermined amount which is less than the first. Thus, a detector does not wrongly detect a notch on a film's lead portion as a perforation, and a leading frame is fed normally with a reliable judgment on an initial loading.

Abstract: A cartridge holder being movable between a cartridge accommcodating position where it is concealed within a camera body and a projecting position where it is exposed outside the camera body has a lower supporting member at its bottom for driving a film spool in a film cartridge inserted through an opening into the cartridge holder by engaging a lower end of the film spool, and an upper supporting member for engaging an upper end of the film spool. The upper supporting member is moved between its retracted position where it is retracted from the opening of the cartridge holder and its engaged position where it engages the film spool, its movement interconnecting with the movement of the cartridge holder between its cartridge accommodating and projecting positions.

Abstract: A drive unit for transmitting a drive force of a motor using cameras to handling a film comprising a fork gear capable of engaging a cartridge spool, a transmission gear to transmitting the drive force to the fork gear at least when rewinding the film within the cartridge, and a plurality of input gears disposed at respectively different positions to transmit the drive force from the motor to the transmission gear, wherein the drive gear is arranged so as to cover at least the rotational center of the fork gear, and the fork gear, drive gear, and plurality of input gears are supported by one panel.

Abstract: A camera loadable with a film regularly formed with perforations along a length of the film and provided with exposure areas and magnetic recording areas arranged with reference to the perforations, the camera includes: a perforation detector which detects a perforation; a recording device which records magnetic data in a magnetic recording area; and a controller which controls the recording of the recording device in accordance with a detection of the perforation detector. The camera can securely perform a proper magnetic recording and recording of a photographed image within a set exposure area.

Abstract: An apparatus using a film cartridge in a system that a leading portion of a film contained in a cartridge is thrust to be conveyed from the cartridge, wherein an indicator showing an exposure condition is reset to an original state when an initial loading, which is executed on a film cartridge loading in an apparatus, is not executed normally, and the film is rewound, thus, it indicates "unexposed" when a new film cartridge is loaded. While, when a winding up operation is not executed normally during a photographing, a film is rewound and an indicator showing an exposure condition, is set so as to indicate that the film is exposed. Thus, it prevents from causing a double exposure.

Abstract: A cartridge holder being movable between a cartridge accommodating position where it is concealed within a camera body and a projecting position where it is exposed outside the camera body has a lower supporting member at its bottom for driving a film spool in a film cartridge inserted through an opening into the cartridge holder by engaging a lower end of the film spool, and an upper supporting member for engaging an upper end of the film spool. The upper supporting member is moved between its retracted position where it is retracted from the opening of the cartridge holder and its engaged position where it engages the film spool, its movement interconnecting with the movement of the cartridge holder between its cartridge accommodating and projecting positions.

Abstract: A camera in use of a film cartridge which contains a film wound around a winding shaft in a light-shielding condition, wherein an output of a motor that is disposed in a movable cartridge chamber drives the cartridge chamber to open and close, driven members that are arranged in a camera body, and driven members that are arranged in the cartridge chamber. Therefore, there is no need to arrange a complicated transmitting mechanism which transmits a driving force from a motor in the camera body, which makes it possible to simplify a driving force transmitting mechanism.

Abstract: A motor drive system is provided with two drive units so that the system may be driven not only by operating one of the drive units but by simultaneously operating both of the drive units in accordance with load condition. Both of the first and second drive units are provided with a motor and a gear reduction mechanism. The output gear of the second drive unit is mounted as a planetary gear of a planetary gear mechanism on the carrier. When the current is supplied simultaneously to both the motor of the first drive unit and to the motor of the second drive unit, the output gear of the first drive unit comes into mesh with the output gear of the second drive unit, combining the output forces of the first and second drive units to drive the load driving shaft.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a movable cartridge casing capable of facilitating film cartridge loading and unloading operations. In a loading operation, the cartridge casing is positioned at a cartridge receiving position outside the body of the apparatus so that the film cartridge can easily be inserted in the cartridge casing, the cartridge casing containing the film cartridge is pushed into the body to an intermediate position where the film spool of the film cartridge is separated from a spool driving shaft, and then the cartridge casing is moved toward the spool driving shaft along a line substantially parallel to the axis of the spool driving shaft to bring the film spool into engagement with the spool driving shaft.